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“Word starting with an N” | Radio Canada’s appeal will be heard

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (SRC) challenge to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruling this summer regarding the use of the “word beginning with an N” in its radio waves will be heard by the Federal Court of appeal.

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Vincenzo Larin

Vincenzo Larin
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“In accordance with usual practice, the court did not substantiate” its decision to hear the CBC motion, the brief notice posted on Monday on the federal court’s website reads. The date of the hearing is not specified at this time.

Recall that SRC had to apologize on July 13 after being blamed by the CRTC for using the “word starting with an N” during a radio show in the summer of 2020.

This was then used four times during the “News with Simon Jodoin: Are Certain Ideas Becoming Taboo?” Segment, presented on August 17, 2020 during the show On 15-18 on ICI Radio-Canada Première.

Columnist Simon Jodoin and host Annie Desrochers discussed a controversy over Pierre Vallières’s book white negroes of america.

“A racist and offensive insult”

While acknowledging that the “word [commençant par un] N ”is a“ racist offensive, in both French and English ”, and which“ must be contextualized to try to minimize the harm its use could cause, ”the CBC had indicated that it intended to challenge the CRTC decision.

“He had neither the authority nor the jurisdiction to make this decision and, in exercising his discretion, he ignored the freedom of the press guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Broadcasting Act “, We pleaded last July.

In a rare interview with French-language media, the artist behind the complaint that led to the CRTC’s decision, Ricardo Lamour, called on the public broadcaster to pay more attention to the use of this term. .

“This decision is not an attack on freedom of expression [du CRTC] or this action that I have done, is a reminder of the responsibility of expression, a reminder of the depth of the themes that are maintained by Caucasians with words that have been used as weapons for centuries and for which there is a pedagogical deficit to inform society dominant ”, he pleaded into the microphone of the journalist Jean Numa Goudou of the monthly In the text.

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